Wall safe



JOSEPH L RAUWALD AND JOHN RAUWALD.

WALL SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23, 191s.

Patented Jan. 24, 1922.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC.23, 1918.

Patented Jan 24, 1922.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALL SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 24;, 1922.

Application filed December 23, 1918. Serial No. 267,981.

To. all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, J osnrrr J. RAUWALD and JOHN RAUWALD, citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Viscousin, have invented new and useful Improve ments in lVa-ll Safes, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

The invention relates to safes more particularly for use in residences, and is fully describedin the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a safe embodying the invention, parts being broken away; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a section similar to Fig. 3 showing a modified form of construction, parts being broken away; Fig. 6 is a front elevational view of a fragmentary portion of the construction shown in Fig.

In the drawings the numeral 7 designates the wall joists of the building and the nu meral 8 a third wall joist. The safe embodying the invention in each instance consists of a double wall box which is secured to the joists by fastening means rendered accessible only on the opening of the door or doors of the safe.

The double walled box comprises an outer hollow frame 9, an outer casing 10, an inner frame 11 and an inner casing 12.

The outer casing 10 comprises a rear wall and top, bottom and side walls having their front edges secured in grooves 13 in the frame 9 in any suitable manner as by welding. The frame 9 has a hollow interior 1a which may be filled with any suitable fireproofing liquid or substance.

The innercasing 12 comprises a rear wall and top, bottom and side walls having their front edges secured to the frame 11 in any suitable manner as by screws 12. The frame 11 is secured in spaced relation to the casing 10 by means of bolts 15 passing through the back of the casing 10 and secured to flanges 16 on said frame 11 and also by screws 17 or other suitable fastening means to inwardly extending flanges 18 on the frame 9. The outer frame 9 maybe held spaced away from the face of the wall of the building into which the safe is built by means of a marginal edge frame 19 interposed between the face of the wall of the building and the shoulders 20 on the frame 9.

The outer casing 10 is provided with holes 21 for the insertion of screws 22 into the joist-s 7 to secure the safe in place and access to the screws is bad through openings 23 in the sides of the casing 12 which are normally covered after the screws are in place by means of plates 24L secured to the sides of the casing by screws 25. In addition a hole 26 may be provided in the back of the safe to receive a screw 22, fasten-able to the joist 8, access to this screw being bad through an opening 23' in the back of the casing 12 normally covered by a plate 24 secured to said casing by screws 25.

In the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 41 inclusive access to the interior of the safe is had through the doors 27 and 28. Each of these doors is pivotally mounted upon the flanges 18 of the frame 9 by pins 28 passing through said flanges and connected to said doors. The doors have hollow interiors 29 adapted to be filled with any suitable fire proofing liquid or substance and the door 28 has a flange 30 overlapping the other door so that the locking of this flanged door secures both doors in place. The means for locking the door 28 consists of locking bolts 31 slidably mounted within the door and en gageable in openings 32 in the frame 9 and having rack extensions 33 at their inner ends engaging opposite sides of a gear 34; and means for controlling the operation of said gear. This means consists of the conventional form of cylindrical lock 35 mounted within an inwardly projected sleeve 36 carried by the door and having the gear 34 Se cured to its spindle so that on the turning of the lock spindle by the key, the gear 34 will be rotated to either move the bolts 31 toward each other to remove said bolts from engagement with the frame 9 or to move said bolts 31 outwardly to locking position.

Means are provided for opening both doors on the opening of one of them consisting of a gear 37 mounted on one of the hinge pins 28 of each door and each engaging arack 38 on a bar 39, as shown in Fig. 4:.

In the construction shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the construction of the safe is similar to that previously described except that a single door 40 is used and in this instance the flange edge 41 of this door abuts against a jamb 42 of the frame 9. The locking means for the single door is identical with that previously described for the double doors.

In the construction above described it will be noted that the means for securing the safe to the wall of the building are only accessible upon the-opening of the doors and the double wall construction provides heat insulating space surrounding the interior of the safe.

hat we claim as our invention is:

l. A safe comprising a hollow outer frame adapted to receive fireproofing material within the interior thereof, an outer casing secured to said frame, an inner container, means securing said container with its walls spaced from those of said outer casing and frame, and a door for said inner container.

2. A safe comprising an outer casing, an outer frame secured to the edges of said casing, an inner frame secured to said outer frame, an inner container within the outer casing with its walls spaced from the walls of sa1d casing and its edges secured to said inner frame, and a door for said inner con tainer.

3. A safe comprising an outer casing partially extending into a wall and being secured thereto, an outer frame secured to the outer edges of said casing, a marginal frame enclosing that part of said casing between said outer frame and the wall, an inner frame secured to said outer frame, an inner container within the outer casing with its walls spaced from the walls of said casing and its edges secured to said inner frame, and a door for said inner container.

4. A safe comprising an'outer frame, an outer casing secured to said outer frame, an inner frame, an inner casing secured to said inner frame and having its walls spaced from the walls of the outer casing, fastening means for securing the safe in a wall, said inner casing having openings through which said fastening means are applied, removable plates closing said openings, and a door for the safe.

In testimony whereof, we affix our signatures.

JOSEPH J. RAUWALD. JOHN RAUWALD. 

